Joshua 1:3 (DBY)

Passage

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses.

Nearby Context

Joshua 1:1 And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying,

Joshua 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; and now, rise up, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land which I give unto them, to the children of Israel.

Joshua 1:3 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses.

Joshua 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

Joshua 1:5 None shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee; I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "place", "whereon", "sole", "foot", "shall", "tread", "given", and "said". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "place" and "whereon", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "Moses my servant is dead and now..." into verse 4's "From the wilderness and this Lebanon to...", so "place" and "whereon" belong inside that flow. In Joshua context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "place" and "whereon" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.